1891. 792 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Peeling cloth on paste-down. Contains illustrated plates. Boards are warped. Paint speckles and water drops. Handling-marked pages with moderate tanning and foxing to endpapers and page edges. Former owner's name stamp on front paste-down, with rubbing and a few nicks to text block edges. Cracked guttering with exposed netting. Binding remains firm. Some dog-eared corners, with rubbing and a few nicks to text block edges. Fairly heavy tanning along spine and board edges. Noticeable rub wear to surfaces and edges with crushing to spine ends and bumps to corners.